Animus : the Canadian journal of philosophy and humanities
http://www2.swgc.mun.ca/animus/
Animus: The Canadian Journal of Philosophy and Humanities is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal which focuses on Western philosophy. It is edited by a team of 5 editors namely Ken Jacobsen, David Peddle, Neil Robertson, Kenneth Kierans and Eli Diamond. This homepage enables free access to all pieces featured in the journal since the first volume was published in 1996. Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to access them but this can be downloaded from the site. Each volume of the journal supports a particular theme. Previous themes include: Postmodernism; Modernity; Hegel; Philosophy and Freedom; Political Institutions; War; and the Modern State. The site also contains guidelines for contributors and a search engine. The resource will appeal to anyone working in philosophy or literary theory.
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Assembled western philosophers
http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/
'Assembled Western Philosophers' is a subsite of a Web page entitled Philosophy Pages, designed by Garth Kemerling. It provides two extensive lists of key contributors to the Western philosophical tradition, from Plato to the present day. By clicking on a name in the main list on the upper half of the page, the user is taken to a biography of the philosopher. Some of these biographies are illustrated and all are accompanied by lists of primary and secondary source lists, as well as links to online book retailers and additional online information. Within the biographies, there are also helpful links to further explanations of philosophical terms and schools of thought. The more extensive, secondary list of philosophers provides briefer biographies and information, along with links to online versions of texts, where available. This is an extensive site with a wealth of information, and will be of use to undergraduates and teachers.
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British Society for the History of Philosophy (BSHP)
http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/phil/bshp/
The British Society for the History of Philosophy was launched in 1984 with the aim of promoting and fostering all aspects of the study and teaching of the history of philosophy. The society's home page describes in further detail its aims, and provides information on forthcoming and previous conferences and events. It also includes: a list of current members and their research interests; membership subscription rates; edited versions of newsletters that members receive by email; and information about the society's official journal, the British Journal for the History of Philosophy (BJHP). A list of links to societies with similar aims is also available.
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Center for the study of the great ideas
http://www.thegreatideas.org/
The website for the Center of the Study of the Great Ideas aims to provide an online presence that furthers the work of the Center's mission to prove that 'philosophy is everybody's business'. Addressing the questions as to what we should seek in life and how we should go about our search sums up the life and work of Dr. Mortimer J. Adler (1902 - 2001), who founded the Center and whose academic credentials include the post of Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago. The site aims to make the ideas of Dr. Adler widely available and while membership options at a range of prices are offered, the site contains a sufficient amount of open access material to provide comprehensive introductory insights. Under the headings such as 'The Great Ideas', 'The Great Books' and 'Liberal Education', the basic concepts of the Center are introduced fully, with a biography of Dr. Adler and a useful range of links. A search engine is available, which will yield results when searched by author name or subject. This is a wide-ranging site, with a large amount of thought-provoking material.
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Centre for the Study of the Platonic Tradition
http://www.tcd.ie/Classics/cspt/index.php
The Centre for the Study of the Platonic Tradition is part of the School of Classics at Trinity College Dublin and aims to further the study of the history of Platonism (including Christian, Jewish, and Islamic Platonism). The Centre's website offers details of its undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes in Platonic Studies, as well as giving information on Centre members and faculty (with details of their research and publications). Newsletters of the Centre, dating back to 1999, can also be found online: these provide information on work in progress, lectures, events, visiting scholars, and the activities of the Centre's members, as well as details of conferences held elsewhere on themes relating to the Centre's work.
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Continental philosophy
http://www.continental-philosophy.org/
This website serves as a bulletin board for events and commentaries relating to Continental Philosophy. It is maintained by Farhang Erfani, an assistant professor of philosophy at the American University, in D.C. The materials, which comprise the main topics that fall within this branch of philosophy, are arranged in alphabetical order. There are also video recordings of lectures; and information about books; book reviews; and job vacancies. Viewers are allowed access to their monthly archives which date back to July 2006. The site also provides links to other blogs and the homepages of philosophical societies. A search engine is available.
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Cornell University Library historical monographs collection
http://dlxs2.library.cornell.edu/c/cdl/
The Cornell University Library Historical Monographs Collection website provides free access to facsimiles of over 400 historical monographs. A number are of interest to ancient and modern history of philosophy. These include English translations of: Aristotle's (384-322 BCE) On Youth and Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration; The Science of Ethics as Based on the Science of Knowledge, by Johann Fichte (1762-1814); The Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, and On the Will in Nature, by Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860); The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte (1798-1857) in three volumes; and Otto Weininger's (1880-1903) Sex and Character. There is also a facsimile of Moses Maimonides' (1135-1204) Moreh Nevukhim (Guide for the Perplexed), translated into Hebrew. As this is an historical archive, the translations and texts should not be treated as definitive or up-to-date (the Comte, for instance, is recorded as being 'freely translated' and condensed by the author Harriet Martineau); the site is primarily of historical philosophical interest. The database may be browsed or searched by author/title.
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Correspondence of Francis Bacon
http://www.livesandletters.ac.uk/projects/correspondence-francis-bacon
This website, which is made available by the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, Queen Mary, University of London, is the home page of the Francis Bacon Correspondence Project. The aim of this project is to produce a new critical edition of the correspondence of the natural philosopher and politican Francis Bacon, Viscount St Alban (1561-1626). This edition will be published as part of the new Oxford edition of Bacon's works, which is supported by the British Academy. The site includes information about the project, and two papers available as PDF files: "The Design of the Francis Bacon Correspondence Project Database"; and "The Editing of Francis Bacon as a Man of all Parties". The site also makes available a calendar of Bacon's correspondence, including some 200 letters that have not previously been published. These have been located through an initial census of library and archival holdings carried out as part of the project. The catalogue can be browsed as a chronological list of letters, or using the alphabetical index of correspondents. It can also be searched by name. Each entry contains information in the following fields: date; author; recipient; first line; summary; manuscript reference; and references to printed versions of the letter. This material will be of great value to researchers working on Bacon or on the intellectual world of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, especially as it collects material that has previously been scattered.
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Dedication to Spinoza's insights, A
http://www.yesselman.com/
A Dedication to Spinoza's Insights is a vast online resource that investigates and participates in the philosophy of the seventeenth-century thinker Baruch Spinoza (a.k.a. Benedictus de Spinoza, 1632-1677). The site's author is Joseph B. Yesselman, a retired structural engineer who has had a lifelong interest in the philosopher. Spinoza's philosophy itself has been subject to various interpretations, although he is perhaps best known for identifying God and nature, and in doing so arguing that there is only one type of substance. His arguments to this end can be found in his most famous publication (albeit a posthumous one), his Ethics. The resource itself at first appears confusing with apparently unrelated brief sections and shorthand hyperlinks following one another with some rapidity. However, the author warns us that the site's content should not be approached in the way one reads a novel, but instead, one should "surf" the site, following whatever hyperlinks tickle the fancy. This proviso granted, Yesselman provides a good deal of interesting personal insight, particularly into Spinoza's philosophy of emotion (and of note here is Yesselman's relating of Spinoza's philosophy to calculus, and to the work of Mark Twain). The resource also contains, among other things, a glossary of Spinoza's philosophical concepts and definitions, links to Spinoza resources hosted elsewhere on the web, bibliographical information, and commentary and other secondary material by Yesselman. The wealth of information and opinion is vast, and for those who have the patience to master the form of the resource, it may prove useful and interesting.
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Descriptive and formal ontology
http://www.formalontology.it/
Descriptive and Formal Ontology, developed by Raul Corazzon, has brought together an extensive and extremely useful collection of materials on a wide range of topics relating to ontology. The site is divided into two primary areas: first, the shape of contemporary ontological discussions as revealed in both its philosophical and technological relationships, and second, the historical development of ontology. Regarding the first aspect, special attention is paid to its discussion and development among major ontologists, and its present applications in computer models, databases and language mapping. Here one will find a good supply of introductory background and additional links on thinkers from the last two centuries, organized by name and, where appropriate, significant groups like the Vienna School, or related developments like process theology. A number of online articles are available, along with bibliographic and biographical collections on major scholars, such as Nino Cocchiarella, and their works. Students will also appreciate a selection of definitions for 'Ontology' and descriptions of on-going problems in the field. The second part of this site is entitled 'Apropos the history of ontology'. Here the user is introduced to some of the earlier themes and thinkers in ontological discussions, beginning with Anselm of Canterbury's (1033-1109) formulation of five ontological proofs for the existence of God, and continuing through to the seventeenth century. Those researching opinions and attitudes towards this subject in the Middle Ages are strongly encouraged to look through the large 'Annotated Bibliography of the medieval theories of suppositio and oratio mentalis'. The site also introduces the research of a few contemporary leading historians with a substantial focus on this subject at that time.
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Electronic enlightenment
http://www.e-enlightenment.com/
Electronic Enlightenment is a substantial scholarly project of the University of Oxford's Humanities Division, available online via Oxford University Press. This subscription resource offers unrivalled online access to correspondence from the long 18th century (approximately 1688 to 1815, though some earlier and later materials are included). At time of writing, over 53,000 letters and other documents from almost 6,000 correspondents were available, with twice yearly updates promised. The authors include great thinkers such as John Locke; David Hume; Jeremy Bentham; and Adam Smith; plus a host of other scholars; politicians; writers; artists; churchmen; members of the professions; and society figures. The letters are taken from the best critical editions, and feature nearly 230,000 scholarly annotations. Works in a variety of languages (including Italian, French, and German in addition to English) are available, and some of the material is previously unpublished. Users can browse the collection, or make use of the sophisticated search tools. Although still in its early stages, this project should prove a valuable resource to the study of the 18th century across numerous disciplines.
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Electronic resources for medieval philosophy studies
http://www2.bc.edu/~solere/siepm.html
This informative and useful website provides online access to electronic resources relating to medieval philosophy and philosophical studies. The website is simply designed, with a number of links to the various sections of the site (including: manuscripts; edited texts; biographies; and information pages). There is, moreover, the option to search the entire website by keyword. Each of the broad categories mentioned above have a vast amount of information on online resources, with clickable direct links. This website will be of invaluable use to anyone interested in medieval philosophy in general, or specific medieval philosophers/philosophies.
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Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert : collaborative translation project
http://www.hti.umich.edu/d/did/
The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert: Collaborative Translation Project is an ongoing attempt to bring an English translation of this great 18th-century encyclopaedia to the World Wide Web. A major achievement of the French enlightenment, the original publication consisted of 32 volumes covering 70,000 topics. Like the original, the online version is a collaborative effort, and potential contributors are encouraged to contact the publishers. Users can browse encyclopaedia entries, or search for key words. Search results return the immediate local contexts in which words have been used, with the full entry accessed by a link from the title field. Entries include links to their original French language versions. Bibliographical searches are also available. Future plans for the online encyclopaedia include: the possibility of browsing by original author; a list of plates with English and French titles; and access to the images of plates even before captions have been translated.
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Formalization of ancient logic
http://logic.glashoff.net/
Klaus Glashoff is a former professor of mathematics at University of Hamburg, Germany. He created this website as part of his interest in investigating and interpreting systems of formal logic through the application of modern symbolic logic. The systems in question are: the ancient Greek logic of Aristotle (384-322 BCE); the medieaval Indian Buddhist logic of Dignaga (480-540); and the early modern logic of Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716). Each of the three logicians is introduced with a brief biography and then treated in a series of papers by Glashoff in PDF format. Most papers are in English though several are in German. The running theme throughout is the rewards and pitfalls of transcribing the various systems of logic into modern symbolic notation. Also available is an online programme for experimentation and research in Aristotelian logic. This site would appeal to advanced students and researchers familiar with modern symbolic logic and with an interest in the history of logic or different logical systems.
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Gensler's philosophy exercises
http://www.jcu.edu/philosophy/gensler/exercise.htm
This webpage contains links to multiple-choice quizzes on a variety of philosophical subjects, including: ethics; logic; philosophy of religion; and various historical and contemporary figures in ethics and analytic philosophy. The exercises, which are generally at an undergraduate introductory level, are designed by Harry J. Gensler of John Carroll University. Each quiz contains some brief introductory material on the topic to hand, and an indication of the specific texts on which the quiz qustions are based, though in many cases the exercises could be tackled by any student with a general familiarity with the subject. There are also lists of related sites of interest, both on the home page and on the various exercise pages, though some of the links are broken. This site would be of interest to undergraduates seeking to test or review their basic knowledge of topics in philosophy.
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Great voyages: the history of Western philosophy from 1492 to 1776
http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/
Great Voyages: the History of Western Philosophy from 1492 to 1776 is a well-presented, extensive and very useful web resource that hosts amongst other things biographical information, primary texts and annotated bibliographical references concerning the philosophy and philosophers of the 16th-18th centuries. The site's webmaster and editor is Bill Uzgalis, an associate professor in the department of philosophy at Oregon State University, USA. He prepared the resource both for a past university course and for anyone in general with an interest in the subject matter. The general site is primarily divided into four sections: "Stories and themes" - an overview of the philosophy and philosophers from the time period in question; "Historical timeline" - both of philosophical and world affairs of the day; "Parts of philosophy" - a brief overview of the different philosophical disciplines in play at the time, e.g. epistemology (the theory of knowledge), metaphysics (the theory of the nature of what ultimately exists), logic, and ethics, along with an introductory essay on the epistemology and metaphysics of the 17th-century; and "The philosophers". Thirty-five philosophers are covered, including Machiavelli; Gassendi; Descartes; Malebranche; Bayle; Rousseau; Bacon; Hobbes; Locke; Berkeley; Hume; Spinoza; Leibniz; and Kant. For each, Uzgalis provides a brief overview of the life and work of the philosopher, a sourced timeline, and often, links to e-texts of primary and secondary sources hosted both by the site itself and elsewhere, and annotated bibliographies of secondary material available off-line. The resource is attractive to the eye, and there are the occasional graphics. It is also extremely well-laid out and is easy to navigate, with extensive hyperlink facilities. This would be a useful website for undergraduates studying the history of modern western philosophy.
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Gyula Klima : Yale lectures
http://www.fordham.edu/gsas/phil/klima/lectures.htm
This website, developed and maintained by Gyula Klima, a professor of philosophy at Fordham University, makes available the lecture notes he used whilst teaching an introductory philosophy course for Yale's Directed Studies Programme from 1991 to 1993. Topics covered are as follows: 'Plato on immortality in his "Phaedo"'; 'Isagoge'; 'De Bono: Boethius' "De Hebdomadibus"'; 'St Thomas on Boethius' "De Hebdomadibus"'; 'St Thomas Aquinas on being and essence' (lecture notes and handout); 'Causa prima'; 'The last scholastic: Descartes'; and 'The vanishing of substance'. This resource is suitable for those seeking a user-friendly introduction to these subjects. Anyone wishing for a more in-depth discussion of some of these topics is directed to Professor Klima's list of publications, which can also be accessed from this site.
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Historia de la filosofia en Kalipedia.com
http://www.kalipedia.com/filosofia/
The Spanish online encyclopaedia, Kalipedia, offers in its website a dedicated section to the history of philosophy. It covers all aspects of Western thought from the Presocratics to the present time. The resource is presented as a series of short articles, organised in five different periods: from Presocratics to Hellenism; from Medieval Ages to Renaissance; from Scientific Revolution to modern philosophy; Enlightenment and 19th century; and 20th century. The site will be specially valuable for anyone interested in Spanish intellectual history during the 19th and 20th century. Users will find articles covering topics and authors within this area, including: Krausism in Spain; Miguel de Unamuno; Ortega y Gasset; and Spanish philosophy in exile. Articles are very short and limited in content, yet they will be useful for those wanting to have a general overview of a period or author, and for quick reference. Users should note the encyclopaedia is available in Spanish only.
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History and philosophy of psychology section of the British psychological society
http://www.bps.org.uk/sub-sites$/history/
This is the home page of the History and Philosophy of Psychology Section (HPS) of the British Psychological Society (BPS). The Section enables those interested in the history of psychology or in various philosophical aspects of the subject to share work and ideas. Details of events and publications of the Section are given here. The HPS publishes a journal with both refereed and non-refereed content once or twice a year, and tables of contents are made available, as is subscription information and instructions for authors. A Resources section provides useful links to organizations, journals, archives, books, and museums relevant to the history and/or philosophy of psychology. This site would be of value to advanced students, researchers and teachers in history of philosophy of mind and philosophy of psychology.
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History of psychology
http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/historyofpsych.html
This is an extensive and enjoyable resource outlining the history of psychology largely from a philosophical perspective, beginning with the Presocratics and continuing through to the late 20th century. The site is divided into four main sections covering different eras, and within each section can be found short discussions of a particular figure, movement, or event. Historical figures up until the 'pre-psychology' era are presented in terms of both their general views and any particular ideas they had regarding minds and human cognition. There are also, in each section, links to a great deal of subsidiary information in the form of primary source texts, literature and poetry, diagrams, and timelines, all of which combine to make this a true history of ideas. The author is George Boeree, a Professor of Psychology at Shippensburg University, with a special interest in philosophy. The pages were originally designed for his students, and much of the content is geared towards the undergraduate level. The home page contains a link to a set of interactive quizzes on the main sections of the site. The site would be of use to students seeking to further their knowledge on the subject and/or find out information on areas beyond the more conventional philosophy of psychology and mind topics.
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Håndskrifter fra Søren Kierkegaard arkivet på Det kongelige bibliotek
http://www2.kb.dk/kultur/expo/sk-mss//index-en.htm
This website presents a selection of excerpts from the manuscripts of Søren Kierkegaard dating between 1834 and 1855. The selection is based on an exhibition of 1996 displayed in Copenhagen at the Round Tower. The images are generally clear and easy to read (although, of course, the papers are in Danish and some familiarity with nineteenth-century handwriting is an advantage). The site itself has an English version, and is equipped with an index of manuscript titles and call marks, two essays on Kierkegaard, a selection of portraits, information on his contemporaries, and a chronology. The contemporaries section provides brief biographical notices and a selection of portraits. There are also photographs of old Copenhagen. This is a charming site which should be of use not just to the specialist but to a general reader who would like a sense of Kierkegaard and his times.
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Inquiry : an interdisciplinary journal of philosophy
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/0020174x.asp
'Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy' (ISSN: 1502-3923) came into being in 1958 and has since published articles on all areas of philosophy. The site includes instructions for authors, pricing details, and subscription information. It contains the tables of contents and abstracts of all articles published since 1998. A full-text sample issue is also available, although free user registration is required to view this. Articles featured include: 'Winch on moral dilemmas and moral modality'; 'Metaphysics and morality'; 'Cosmological fecundity; idealism and the philosophy of mind'; 'Rorty on religion and hope'; 'Foucault and ethical universality'; 'Modernity and morality in Habermas' discourse ethics'; and 'The perspectival nature of probability and inference'. The journal is published 6 times a year by Routledge and it is edited by Dr Wayne Martin of the University of Essex.
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Institut des traditions textuelles
http://fr_33.vjf.cnrs.fr/
This is the website of the Institut des Traditions Textuelles. The institute conducts interdisciplinary research in philosophy, history, history of religion, and history of science in many languages, including Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Arabic, Coptic, Ethiopian, and Syriac. It was created in 1996 by bringing together four research units of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS): Histoire des doctrines de la fin de l'Antiquité et du Haut Moyen Âge; Centre d'études des religions du livre; Centre d'histoire des sciences et des philosophies Arabes et Médiévales; Laboratoire de médiévistique occidentale de Paris. The website provides only basic details for access to the institute and its library. A separate Web page is dedicated to the collection entitled 'Textes et traditions' published by Librairie philosophique J. Vrin. There is a list of titles already published, which leads through hyperlinks to each book's title page (including a scanned image), a brief abstract and / or the table of contents.
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International journal of philosophical studies
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09672559.asp
'The International Journal of Philosophical Studies' (ISSN: 1466-4542) is an academic journal which publishes articles in all areas of philosophy. It is published four times a year, and is edited by Maria Baghramian of University College Dublin. This website makes available the tables of contents and abstracts for all articles published since 1997. The full-text of a sample issue is also available, although this requires free user registration. Topics covered include: transcendental constraints and transcendental features; ethics, postmodernism and the Enlightenment spirit of modernity; logical knowledge; theoretical paradox and practical dilemma; knowledge and power in Plato's political thought; the nature of transcendental arguments; and naturalizing the space of reasons. Instructions for authors are also provided. The journal and the site would be of interest to philosophers and philosophy students.
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Internet modern history sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html
The Internet modern history sourcebook has been developed by Paul Halsall at Fordham University. This site forms part of a series of Internet sourcebooks covering different historical periods and themes. This sourcebook covers a wide range of topics from the Reformation up to the present and provides an extensive amount of information. The material provided is a mixture of documents hosted on the site and links to other sites. Brief annotations are available for some of the documents and introductions have been added to many of the sources hosted by the site. The emphasis of the site is the provision of primary sources; there is an interesting section on the study of history and the use of primary sources. The site is relatively easy to navigate with documents divided into sixty different categories which are further subdivided. Although a search engine specifically for the sourcebook is not available, fairly effective searches can be carried out using the Fordham University search engine.
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